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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Welcome to By The Cute and Girly's 3rd Birthday blog hop celebration!If you have come here from Tammy's blog then you are on the right track, if not, you need to start from the beginning at Lora's blog. The design team have all been busy making something to celebrate our 3rd birthday and we would love for you to visit us all to see what we made.The blog hop rules are very simple, all you have to do is visit each of the design team members blogs and leave a comment on each one, then finish up at our challenge blog and leave a comment there to let us know you have finished the hop. Your name will then be put in a draw to win one of the blog hop prizes.If you also enter our challenge this month, you will also be put in the draw to win one of challenge prizes. You have the whole month to enter and you can enter the challenge as much times as you like, as long as each entry is a different craft eg: 1 card, 1 scrap page, 1 altered item, 1 knitted item etc.And as always, you can enter with any craft you like, from paper craft to baking and everything in between. If you made it yourself then you can enter is, it's as easy as that :) The theme is "Birthdays" so it's a nice easy challenge and we have lots of prizes up for grabs from some great sponsors! Please check out the challenge blog to see all the prizes we have to give away!Each design team member is featuring a different sponsor today, so you will see images or other products from a different sponsor being used on each of the dt blogs. We also have other sponsors on the challenge blog, so there really are lots of prizes to be won :)

The sponsor I am featuring isPink Gem and I have used their Keep Calm and Eat Cake digi to make a birthday card suitable for anyone who dreads birthdays and getting older. Also tried to keep a Pink theme going ie cute/girly and pink with some gems!

I used the Sizzix Framelits Fancy tags die to cut out the image and an overlay of pink vellum. Background is embossed with Divine Swirls folder and edging is made with EK punch. Ribbon is from local craft shop and the flowers are made with Memory Box Honeysuckle spray die.

The next stop is Uta's blog.Remember to leave a comment on this post and on all the other design team members blog hop posts for a chance to win one of the prizes. Then leave a comment on the challenge blog post to let us know you are finished the hop and your name will go into the prize draw.Here's a list of the blog hop order in case you loose your way. Lora Celine Aideen Tammy Geraldine Uta Carol Brigitte Kate

Monday, October 15, 2012

Back again to remind everyone of By the Cute and Girly's Birthday Blog hop. Details of prizes, rules and DT creations can be found HEREI was lucky to get two images from my sponsor Pink Gem Designs and here is the card I made with their Steampunk Owl digi:

I used Bo Bunny Timepiece papers on Kraft cardstock, TH sprockets and gears die, a stick pin decorated with beads and wire and two metal bead caps that I hammered flat and filled their "petals" with black Stickles. The grey/silver centres are Papermania Dewdrops (used them on owl's hat also). The sentiment is machine embroidered on calico. I have discovered how to do wonky writing on the emb machine so beware of wonky sentiments on everything!Yes, it seems that I have had to make a lot of men's cards this year - this card was for OH's 60th birthday last week. It would be lovely to sit down and make pretty pretty cards and stuff but life is not all lace 'n feathers.Apologies for not blogging much recently. I have been sick on and off for the last 2 weeks and can barely crawl at the mo...have had to shut down my Etsy shop for the time being....only doing this post 'cause I have to lol!Finally, please don't forget to enter the BTC&G Birthday Blog Hop - there are 15 fantastic prizes to be won (including selection boxes of goodies from my Etsy shop!)Ger x